Editing Fornax (section)

==History==
[[File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Psalterium Georgii, Fluvius Eridanus, Cetus, Officina Sculptoris, Fornax Chemica, and Machina Electrica.jpg|thumb|left|350px|Fornax Chemica can be seen below [[Cetus (constellation)|Cetus]] in this card from ''[[Urania's Mirror]]'' (1825).]]

The French astronomer [[Nicolas Louis de Lacaille]] first described the [[constellation]] in French as ''le Fourneau Chymique'' (the Chemical Furnace) with an [[alembic]] and receiver in his early catalogue,<ref name=wagman/> before abbreviating it to ''le Fourneau'' on his planisphere in 1752,<ref name=ridpathlac>{{cite web |url=http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/lacaille.html |title=Lacaille's Southern Planisphere of 1756 |work=Star Tales |author=Ridpath, Ian |publisher=Self-published |access-date=7 November 2016|author-link=Ian Ridpath }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Lacaille, Nicolas Louis |year=1756 |title=Relation abrégée du Voyage fait par ordre du Roi au cap de Bonne-espérance |journal=Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences |pages=519–592 [588] |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k35505/f786 |language=fr}}</ref> after he had observed and catalogued almost 10,000 southern stars during a two-year stay at the [[Cape of Good Hope]]. He devised fourteen new constellations in uncharted regions of the [[Southern Celestial Hemisphere]] not visible from Europe. All but one honoured instruments that symbolised the [[Age of Enlightenment]].{{efn|1=The exception is [[Mensa (constellation)|Mensa]], named for the [[Table Mountain]]. The other thirteen (alongside Fornax) are [[Antlia]], [[Caelum]], [[Circinus]], [[Horologium (constellation)|Horologium]], [[Microscopium]], [[Norma (constellation)|Norma]], [[Octans]], [[Pictor]], [[Pyxis]], [[Reticulum]], [[Sculptor (constellation)|Sculptor]] and [[Telescopium]].<ref name=wagman/>}} Lacaille Latinised the name to ''Fornax Chimiae'' on his 1763 chart.<ref name=wagman>{{cite book |last=Wagman |first=Morton |date=2003 |title=Lost Stars: Lost, Missing and Troublesome Stars from the Catalogues of Johannes Bayer, Nicholas Louis de Lacaille, John Flamsteed, and Sundry Others |publisher=The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company |location=Blacksburg, Virginia |isbn=978-0-939923-78-6 |pages=6–7, 152}}</ref><!-- Cites previous three sentences -->

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